Well its the quality control we seem to have accepted from Ford. Some wil say we should have better for 50k. Should we? how can we? The car is ood value and the performance is what you buying. If you want all those little bits a pieces to be right then another brand might be what you need. No car is perfect, but Ford are a long way from being right in these picky areas. Subaru and Mazda are prime examples. They deliver cars with service and quality that Ford and Expensive Daewoo dream of. At competive prices. Yes no doubt there is a member who has had a bad one of these as well, but overall, when you look at the volume Ford and Expensive Daewoo sell, you would think that their quality control would be better. They dont make a lot of cars so you would think there is less chance of a dud getting through! The very fact that some members have certain issues and some dont shows to me anyway inconsistent monitoring of the finished product as it leaves the gate and then the stealership. When I picked up my T it had no gearbox oil in it. How can that happen when a car is predelivered? Well it does becasue they have no passion about their product. It flows from the ill informed saleperson (who should know more about the car than you, but don't) to the evasive and dismiisive service manager, right to Dealer Principal that is interested in numbers not customers. When you take your car in for service you expect "Yes sir we wil fix it" not "No mate they all do that! Brakes, tailshafts, turbos, water leaks, they have them all in abundance. My engine was one of the first in Aus to fail. Ford were good about it. It took 2 weeks to fix, but did they fix it for everyoine else? No they did not. They knew the valve springs were weak, but did they undertake a recall? No they did not. And that's why I drive another brand currently. I really wish it was better as I woujld have an F6 now....... If you are really conerned about quality of your car, you will buy something else next time! Dallas